Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The biggest evangelist

As a critic I’ve had my share of bombs.
Sting’s Desert Rose album, I panned. And I clearly was not impressed with a first reading of Paul Coelho’s The Alchemist. I was too immersed in the very philosophy that Coelho espouses – a deeply Christian spiritual philosophy, leaning towards the Desert Fathers.
When I returned from the Desert myself, a poor unfinished product, I re-read Coelho and was then as touched as the rest of his billions of fans. If you like Coelho, you are likely in search of union with God. He is Christianity’s biggest modern evangelist.

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